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...especially to the imposition of new taxes. In last July's general election, Nakasone promised that he had "no idea of introducing a large-scale" sales tax. While the Prime Minister will maintain that a 5% levy does not qualify as "large-scale," many Japanese consumers will resent the burden nonetheless. Some lawmakers are attacking the plan on more general grounds. Says Diet Member Shigeru Aoki: "The problem with this package is that it has no philosophy. It calls for tax reductions on the one hand and tax increases on the other...
...part, Perot became publicly critical of a management philosophy that, he believed, put too much of the burden of cost cutting on blue-collar workers while preserving such executive perquisites as private dining rooms and chauffeur-driven limousines. Chairman Smith fired back with some broadsides of his own. Perot's office, he complained to the Detroit Free Press, "makes mine look like a shanty-town. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging on the wall." Said Smith: "[Perot] is a different type of guy than we are in GM. He is very independent. He is the type of guy that...
...this area. Australia ranks low among rich countries on spending for early childhood education, scientific research and development, and vocational skills. The government's top economic bureaucrats have consistently warned of the need to boost productivity and invest in education and skills so as to reduce the future financial burden on younger workers as the boomer generation retires. In the popular mind, Howard's government, which has delivered good economic results for a decade, does not rate highly on education. To the contrary, it is associated with large funding cuts to universities, higher fees for tertiary students, disputes with education...
...explain that phenomenon, but I find it deeply troubling." What's so difficult? As Woodward correctly pointed out, almost no one at home is being asked to sacrifice. If this truly were a national effort, everyone would be asked to sacrifice, and that would mean a draft, so the burden would be shared equally. But the Administration is afraid to even breathe the word draft for one simple reason: the war in Iraq is so unpopular, no one would go. People would vote with their feet, and that would make Bush and other lawmakers face up to the disaster that...
...groves and grasslands. And the designer, Peter Latz, didn't hesitate to directly invade the factory precincts with trees and smaller plantings, playgrounds and rock-climbing walls. By that means the derelict factory was woven back into the world of the living. The past, instead of operating as a burden--something the Germans know all about--becomes the very opposite, a plaything for the present. If history starts looking like a cage, who says you can't use it for monkey bars...